hankwizard

✡ TWINE DEV | WRITER | PIXEL ARTIST | 23 | PFP: @BUNNYMOTHMARTYR Page is 18+ but non-explicit

[mettaflix]

🛒https://mettaflix.booth.pm

[eameschairs]

me and @microbiologistmusings made a guide! we were talking about how frustrating it can be when so much (well meaning!) art of wheelchair users seems to get the chairs...not quite right. so maybe this will help :) i had a lot of fun drawing it and thank u to levi for your unending wisdom <3

[iliothermia]

Singular large frog upon ye. Chag Pesach Sameach homies

[kjscottwrites]

[consolecadet]

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

[nigelgraz]

Red for anxiety and melancholy and possession and defeat

[ooppo]

A PORN BOT UNFOLLOWED ME?

[ooppo]

not that i care

[ooppo]

[nigelgraz]

I love drawing spreads

[zombie-jed]

[electricpurrs]

Kelly Pringle

[spiralstaircased]

happy hollidays

[nitemarewrld]

my gender is bad porn parodies of horror movies

[sleepytrancysub]

[spiralstaircased]

i sexually identify as an attack helicopter - isabel fall // what happens next - max graves

[pinketine]

The way tumblr users talk about racism makes it really obvious they learned about it from Harry Potter's muggle born wizards plotlind

[pinketine]

This is to say, they take the same attitude JKR does: racism is wrong because it's factually incorrect on a pedantic level and not because it inherently places a certain group of people as inferior, a wrong belief to have no matter what.

For example, in the third Harry Potter, Hermoine gets called a slur by Draco. She goes to Hagrid, upset, and instead of saying Draco's wrong because he's bigoted and hateful, Hagrid starts talking pedantically. Not all muggle borns are inferior because Hermoine is academically gifted, and Neville, a pureblood, isn't. So therefore, racism is wrong! 👍🏾. Of course the implication is that if Hermoine wasn't good at school she'd deserve it..? And that's how tumblr users speak about racism.

My real world example is how some tumblr users tried to defend rap music by saying, not all of it is about drugs, sex and violence, so therefore it shouldn't be dismissed. But, what about the rap music that is about those things? Does that deserve to be belittled and mocked?

[pinketine]

Astute observation as always. It's the subconscious belief that everything white is naturally superior because white people made it. While black art is naturally uncomfortable/hard to emphasise with because not only is it not white, it's black, and there's always an underlying sense of percieved aggression attached to blackness. For it to be liked, white people often project their own whiteness onto it (see things like how fandom treated Miles Morales after the Spiderverse movies). And when something, like rap music, does have an aggressive element to it, white people use that as an excuse to express discomfort while listening to heavy metal because white anger is the status quo and black anger is always a threat.

[pinketine]

I didn't go far enough in describing the whitewashing as I'd like so here's my elaboration: fandom will often ignore a black character's aspects to their black culture and give them interests more aligned with white people (example: the fandom surrounding Tyler, the Creator's alter egos, where some of them lose their swag era fashion and get replaced with notoriously anti-black movements like (modern) scenemo), remove any "rough" edges to the black character to act "soft", tiktok softboi style (example: the woobification of Miles Morales), turning it into a big joke to laugh at and then call cringe (examples: Drake vs Kendrick rap beef, "brainrot" words that are just AAVE) or even just straight up ignoring the black context to music to fit their own white experiences (example: 'Wavy' by SZA being used by white girls to complain about not being blonde, the 'Black Barbies' by Nicki Minaj trend on tiktok being hijacked by insecure white girls, and ad nauseam).

This all just ties back into seeing black art as inferior and "fixing" what black art they deem just about good enough to be more white and ie more acceptable

[cryptotheism]

If there was one piece of Religious Studies information you'd like to share or misinformation you'd like to clear up above all others, what would it be?

A person's stated beliefs are actually one of the least reliable signifiers of what they believe. Understanding of belief systems will come from analysis of actions, rather than just words.

[pariambod]

apocalypse au

[hankwizard]

VTMB2 experience

Still very early on, but it's really fun so far! My biggest piece of advice is that generally you aren't supposed to run into the middle of a big group of enemies and just start swinging (at least, not for most clans/normal difficulty), generally the best idea is to try and lure people from the group to divide + conquer. The game teaches you to throw items to distract/lure people for a reason!!! I'm really happy with the game so far- I just hope it reaches the ridiculous heights of the first game. Gimble you will always be famous. Disappointed at the lack of skill checks, but tbh I'm not mad at the lack of gunplay. Gunplay in the first game wasn't all that good.

[hankwizard]

She's worried because you don't have any fur :(